Anti virus

Norton IS a virus.Try and get rid of it.

Well I'm one. Just don't read E-Mails on your Windows machine and don't go to dodgy websites. I've got some pretty old XP installations and they're all uninfected to the best of my knowledge. All my E-Mail and web browsing is done on Linux, I just have the XP installs for the odd MS Office file that isn't displayed right in LibreOffice and for HMRC and for my Epson scanner drivers.

FWIW, my Epson scanner (V300 photo) works just fine under Ubuntu.

Aye. The guys I'm talking about are IT savvy, so I assume that they practise more or less what you do.

A well known Internet God uses AVG. The 11th Commandment is that Norton is a pile of s*it.

I do as well. I've never had a virus. I still run MSE, though, because it's no trouble and it's free.

It is better than it used to be, but the fact remains that its mega overkill and in no way will work any better than other products, free or otherwise. In all cases you could just be one of the very first to encounter a bit of malware that nobody else has seen yet and get infected. Anti virus software is reactionary, so it can only be by having reports of problems that new scanning and removal systems come into the products. In the meantime find a product that is system lite and has a lot of users and you should be fine

Brian

Norton...had it...never again! Very hard to get rid of. McAfee...had it...never again! Wasn't content to run quietly in the background, always wanting to big itself up.

AVG Good Malwarebytes... Very good.

mark

My V700 does too but the windows software for it has some nice auto-correction of scanned slide colours which is very useful when scanning old slides.

run em through the Gimp.

Fairy Nuff.

Peter Norton was Peter Norton.

So far as I know, Peter Norton still is Peter Norton.

Mr Pounder :

It's difficult to argue with that.

I can still picture that photo on the cover of _Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC_: pink shirt, sleeves rolled half way up forearms, arms folded, tie loosened, smug expression on face. Damned useful book, though.

In 1995 he really was Peter Norton.

Peter Norton sold his PC software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990.

That certainly woke everyone up:-)

I leave this desk top running so start up delay is not an issue. I also don't let Norton do auto updates.

On a Google search, I like the green *safe site* button.

The business pays the annual fee so not hugely painful.

I may encourage my wife to use the Microsoft offering for her currently unguarded laptop though.

As no one has actively vetoed the upgrade I may try it next time it pops up.

Grey hair.

I once had DOS For Dummies. Some yank. I read it twice. It still did not explain why the h/d on my Amstrad 1640 was f***ed.

The "Sticky Head" problem, nothing to do with DOS. Amscrap used cheap HDs with a lubricant inside the unit that used to stick the heads to the platter. After a while, the HD wouldn't spin up. The quick cure was to tap the drive to shock the heads free, copy everything off it, and replace it with a decent one.